I don't miss it, it's just that it's more of the same "we're so much better than them". That's the P&N mantra, and I wonder who you're trying to convince.
Right-wing authoritarians compartmentalize contradicting facts. This is how cognitive dissonance is avoided, and previous beliefs allowed to continue despite having all of the facts.
1. COVID is a disease that has led to close to 200,000 excess deaths in the past 6 months in the US alone. Never mind the rest of the world.
2. COVID can cause chronic long-term conditions due to its affect on the circulatory system and clotting. The disease is so new, we're not even sure about all of the chronic conditions it can cause, and how they can be there even if a person isn't symptomatic with those new chronic conditions.
3. Children can catch COVID as easy as anyone else, and are more contagious, but because they don't develop Pneumonia, they're actually safer than everyone else, at least in the short-term sense of showing symptoms during and after.
4. COVID is no big deal if you're young, perfectly healthy, and aren't unlucky enough to die from it for whatever reason that some young healthy people do die from it.
All of the above are equally true. But put together, that information allows you to infer that COVID isn't some normal seasonal cold, and is very dangerous because it kills a lot of people, and causes chronic conditions that may go undetected because typically chronic conditions start out asymptomatic and get worse over time. In other words, just because it doesn't kill 20% of the people who get it, doesn't mean it's not going to permanently cause chronic conditions for the people who get it and survive asymptomatically.
By not putting the facts together, the right-wing authoritarian can cling to their previous belief and can use facts to support that opinion, while sounding "ignorant" to people who've merged the facts together to grasp the bigger picture.
And it ends with the above quoted stance. That he has all of the facts, but because you merge the information together and he doesn't, somehow he's being judged and oppressed because of his beliefs, rather than his inability to reason from the merged facts. Your argument that COVID really is a serious disease with potential long-term complications for survivors is going to be juxtaposed with whatever 1 of 4 arguments he uses to justify the previous held argument/belief that it's not really a big deal.
tl;dr: He isn't ignorant of the facts. He just doesn't merge them together, so while you're arguing about COVID as a new, complicated and not-fully-understood disease, he's going to pick and choose what facts to use to hold onto previous arguments/beliefs.
www.mayoclinic.org
www.forbes.com
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